Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-05-25
THE FOREIGN "SNARL."
Says the Kansas City Star:

"At Chicago capital and labor are in a
snarl In the field of manual industry both
the employers and the laborers have a per-
feet right to separately combine. After the
combinations the motto of both parties
should be, "Come, let US reason together"
So long as progress continues and civiliza-
ton endures, the existence of the two ele-
ments is inevitable. This fact ought to be
recognized by capital and labor. Then
common sense would suggest that there
should be compromise between the two,
resulting from an interchange Of opinions,
and not brought about by force. Most of
the arrangements in this world are founded
upon compacts that rest upon compromises.
If labor and capital would reason together
it will be discovered that each one has some
thing to compromise TO the other"
Yes "At Chicago labor and capital
are in snarl." The Kansas City paper
might have greatly enlarged its field of
assertion, and said that labor and capital
were ''in a snarl" throughout the length
and breadth of the land. As basis of
agreement between the wrangling inter-
ests, the Star suggests, Come let US rea-
son together" From an American point
OF view the mild assuasive proposed bv
our Kansas City contemporary might
answer, But unfortunately this snarl
OF labor and capital is not
TO D. judged from an American
standpoint. Ii Americans only were con-
cerned, there would be no cause for the
application OF even the Stars remedy of
Come let us reason together" There
would be no disagreement to reason"
over, In this snarl of labor and capital
there are three forces to be considered
labor, capital and the snarl. Labor and
capital are American, the snarl is foreign.
By themselves, American labor and
capital are self-assisting and self-sustain-
ing. In company with the foreign
snarl, they are antagonistic and mutual
ly destructive 20 each other. American
labor and capital, in their very nature,
are amenable to reason. To the foreign
snarl, is reason also foreign. Hence, in
the snarls OF American labor and capital,
the snarl is caused solely and wholly by
the snarl itself. The snarl is foreign, and
it is the only disturbing element. This
foreign disturbing element once
eliminated, and the snarl between Ameri-
can labor and capital disappears.
Philosophical disquisitions on the relations
OF American labor and capital; abstract
assertions on the privileges of the one,
or the birthright of the other; mild invi-
tations to come and reason together"
are worse than idle. They are criminally
useless. The daily injection of Commun-
ism from the shores of Europe is the true
and apparent cause of the 'snarls" be-
tween American labor and capital. In
the human cargoes of European immigrant
ships is found the root of the trouble.
This baleful Anarchist shoot; this root
OF noxious Communistic growth, is
the only successful point of attack. !
In Its destruction, and in its destruction
alone, lies the recoAciling of American |
labor and capital. This is a matter that
cannot be handled with gloves. This is an |
evil which cannot be abolished by silken |
arguments, and winning ways. 1t is an
evil that is savage, powerful and destroy
ing. 1t is an evil that must be met with |
Its own ruthlessness. It should be at
once attacked by the press, the pulpit
and the people. Its own destroying ban
ner should be advanced against it, and
the warfare should never cease until
Communism is driven from American
soil. With it will 20 the snarl between
American labor and capital.